Shine news

Judges tell all: Terry Mansfield CBE

The excitement and the storytelling element of the newspaper and magazine industry first sparked my imagination when, as a fifteen-year- old I was taken on a tour of my local newspaper, The Walthamstow Guardian.

I and a small group of boys who worked on our magazine at school, were encouraged by the English teacher to see how a real newspaper is developed.

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Industry at Shine 2017

We had a great turn-out of industry professionals at Shine 2017 who were busy tweeting.

Here’s what they had to say…

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Judges tell all: Alice Audley

At this year’s Shine Awards, Alice Audley, the editor-in-chief of Blogosphere magazine (and one of our judges), gave our keynote address.

In addition, Alice generously wrote us an inspiring piece which was published in our Winners Book. We loved what Alice wrote and feel it deserves a wider audience, so we reproduce it here.

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Twitter roundup from Shine 2017

Our nominees came from far and wide to Stationers’ Hall this week and we were thrilled to see the photos and messages popping up all over Twitter before, during and after the big day on Monday.

Here’s a roundup of the best Tweets we saw this week . . .

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Shine 2017 winners featured in their local paper

It’s always terrific when our Shine winners appear in the local and national press – and we’ve just heard from Bill Bowkett from the Knight’s Templar School that they’ve been featured in their local paper, The Comet.

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